Businessmen are savvy but stupid.
I came over to the business world from scientific computing (UNIX) and was in literal "shock and awe" for about two years that anyone would ever put up with anything as kludge-ridden and dysfunctional as windows; let alone be impressed by it.
I had always taken it as a *given* that the OS would be stable and that applications would work as promised.
No such luck.
Cheers!
it happened after bill took windows off of the dos platform.
As the owner of two highly successful businesses I strongly disagree with your statement. From our original DOS based PC's to our state-of-the art network we have found MS products relatively easy to use and have been extremely stable with zero crashes over the last 19 years.
Academics have
very smart grad students to
do computer work,
as well as tech geeks
on call. Microsoft has to
provide software that
"empowers" people
doing everything themselves.
And many people
are extremely dumb.
And many people have needs
that are quite outside
(some mundane some weird)
what academics require.
Windows fits that world.